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General sailing
Terms used to sail, navigate, and maintain a sail boat.
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General sailing
bark
Sailing; General sailing
Usually a three masted vessel, the fore and main masts square rigged and the mizzen mast or after mast rigged fore and aft.
bark
Sailing; General sailing
Usually a three masted vessel, the fore and main masts square rigged and the mizzen mast or after mast rigged fore and aft.
bark
Sailing; General sailing
Usually a three masted vessel, the fore and main masts square rigged and the mizzen mast or after mast rigged fore and aft.
heel rope
Sailing; General sailing
The rope by which a running bowsprit or topmast is hauled up or out.
bark
Sailing; General sailing
Usually a three masted vessel, the fore and main masts square rigged and the mizzen mast or after mast rigged fore and aft.
rake
Sailing; General sailing
To lean forward or aft from the vertical, as raking masts, raking sternposts, raking stem. The fore or aft angle of the mast. Can be deliberately induced (by adjustment of the standing rigging) to ...
gaff
Sailing; General sailing
A free swinging spar attached to the top edge of a sailto which the head of a fore-and-aft sail is bent.
